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(Application filed Feb. B0, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT ELMER MCOLELLAN AFRICA, OF HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOI TO THE J. O. BLAIR COMPANY, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,154, dated J' une 5, 1900. Application filed February 20, 1900. Serial No. 5,902. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ELMER MCCLELLAN AFRICA, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city ot' Huntingdon, -in the county of Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cabinets, and has for its object the production of a cabinet providedr with a plurality ot' hinged swinging tablets adapted to be arranged in a series on the walls of the cabinet and adapted to support and display articles placed thereon, so that space may be economized and security obtained; also, that cleanliness and system may be secured.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspectivel View of my cabinet with the doors closed. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective of the same with the doors opened and the tablets swung out; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section of a part of the roof and rear wall and a side elevation of a part of the tablets, their position and -that of the hinge-straps when turned inward being shown in dotted outline.

In the drawings, c is a cabinet having top, bottom, sides, and a front door with Vertical external hinges and adapted to be closed by a latch c' or any similar suitable means. Arranged vertically on each of the inner walls of the sides of the cabinet are hinges arranged in pairs, the iiXed butts of all of the hinges being of the same size and the swing ing butts of each pair being of the same size, as h and h', 7c and 7C', and Zand Z. Attached to the outer ends of these pairs of swinging butts are Vertical tablets, as p, p', and p, arranged in series, the outermost one, having the longest swinging hinge, when swung inward being nearest the back of the cabinet. Similarly on the other side of the cabinet are secured a series of othertablets q, q, and q", with the swinging butts of their hinges so arranged that when the panels are all swung back into the cabinet g is between p and p', q' is between p and p, andq' is nearest the front of the cabinet and the doors.

The hinges may of course be made of any suitable style or material; butI prefer an ordinary gate-hinge, with a pintle Xed to the fast butt, so that the panels may be easily detached. v

The panelsmay be used for many different purposes-for instance, as blackboards and for holding drawings, pictures, or the likeor they may be provided with means-as cords, hooks, or pins-to which may be attached any articles for display or support or preservation.

In whatever way the device may be used the efticiency of its economy of space and arrangement will be appreciated and utilized. Bot-h sides of the tablets can be used simul# taneously, and they lend themselves easily to classification of the things exhibited. At the same time they can be secured against intrusion with one lock.

A cabinet provided with a plurality of independent laterally-swinging display-tablets hinged from their rear edges to opposite sides of the cabinet, the. arrangement being such that any one or more of the tablets can be detached without aiitecting the others, those secured in one side alternating in position with those secured to the other side, when all the tablets are swung within the cabinet, each tablet being adapted to display one side when within the cabinet and the other side whenoutside of the cabinet, substantially as described.

Witness my hand, this 16th day of February, 1900, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELMER MCOLELLAN AFRICA.

l/Vitnesses: H. W. KOCH, W. A. MAGUIRE. 

